If not,what's the thing that is making you unhappy?
I'm just trying to see how many people are really happy the way they live these days...I read in an article that the next decade, depression will be one of the major diseases in the world...
2007-12-05 06:00:43 · 12 answers · asked by Mary P 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
It depends upon the moment with me. I happen to be one of those people with a "disease". For the most part, I am happy. But I have not accomplished all of my goals in life. So in that respect, I am not satisfied. Therein lies much of the difference. I am happy with my life because I am pursuing what I love. I am surrounded by those I love. What's not to be happy about?
Yet not everyone has everything that I have. That makes me sad. Why must there be those that suffer in this world? How unfair that I should prosper in a world of misery.
But it is not my fault that the world suffers. Why should I beat myself up over it? I don't know if one person can change the world. For the moment, I'll do my best to live well.
If I could make everyone happy, then I would.
As for that article that you read, I wonder what the numbers look like with respect to each nation of the world. Do poorer nations or war-torn nations have more or less depressed people per capita, or how much they make up for the total depressed people in the world vs. more prosperous nations. How do they even gather stats in such difficult places? The article would have to include stats over a period of time to indicate a trend. That would be the only way to infer that depression would increase over time. I wonder also, how much depression (or other emotional disorders) is just an illness that has gone unnoticed for a long time and is just becoming more noticed over time. That would explain the increase in cases being diagnosed. This does not mean there are more depressed people than before. It simply means that mental illness is finally beginning to be properly noticed and understood.
2007-12-05 06:40:46 · answer #1 · answered by Starmark 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think people confuse happiness with keeping busy. They want a faithful loving husband or wife and smart children and a good job. But eventually your husband or wife turns into more of a good friend then a lover, your children grow up and leave you and you eventually stop working. Then you ask yourself what is the one thing or the few things I always wanted to do but never did. Is it living abroad, dance photography, writing, traveling in general or volunteering? Whatever it is, you should be doing now instead of making excuses. Wherever your passion lies is where you will find happiness. So I say do it or at least put yourself on a path to doing it.
I am currently not happy but I have realized what my goals are and I am pursuing them.
2007-12-05 13:45:40 · answer #2 · answered by christine s 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What makes me unhappy is to be a single and beautiful woman writer living right now without any response from any closed beloved writers who life beyond the sea or next to my house…
Yes it's true; the major disease is the depression in that decade not in the next because of the lack of true love…
I'm trying to be happy with listening to the music. You too listen to that music:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nzkS7bmAfY
2007-12-05 06:46:13 · answer #3 · answered by jbaudlet 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes- Because I know who I am in reality and what my position and duty is. For example.-We are not this material body, IE; Race, color, nationality, Religion, mind, intellect, senses, job, etc. We are all eternal spirit souls, part and parcel of the Supreme Soul, also known as Krishna, Allah, Jehovah, Vishnu, etc. We never die, only this mortal body dies.
This material world is not our real home, it is called Maya (illusion) and is temporary and full of misery, only one fourth of the souls come here, and the rest are enjoying blissful eternal loving relationships with our Maker named above. We fell here due to envying Gods position. He made the material world for those who want to try to live separately from Him (Which is impossible because He is actually everywhere). After many lifetimes of trying to be happy in this temporary world one becomes frustrated and board and begins to question their existence. We then seek out real happiness, and when one becomes sincere God reveals how to come back Home. Those who are intelligent, take up the process of self realization (Bhakti Yoga) which begins with the chanting of the Maha Mantra (the great mantra for deliverance from all suffering and illusion), which gives one real peace, happiness and reality. Then at the end of life they can give up all material attachments and fully surrender to God and return to the eternal Kingdom, where there is no more birth, death, old age, or disease and be eternally happy. I am so glad I know what to do now.
For info. Go to harekrishnatemple.com Read Bhagavad Gita- As it is by Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada asitis.com you can read it on line.
2007-12-05 06:37:02 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Certainly no, every thing make me unhappy; life itself.
& i think from many last decade depression is the second killer after cancer
2007-12-05 06:10:59 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life "IS". Happy cannot exist without sad or you would not know either. Life "IS" a flowing, an outpouring. What we "think" about the life is what creates the story of having it and not having it, happiness that is!
2007-12-05 06:58:41 · answer #6 · answered by Premaholic 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
we’re happy… almost
doesn’t like to think about it but you asked…
people frustrate us to no end… always stepping on our toes… always budding in front of us… telling us what we’re allowed to think and say… the gall… sigh
2007-12-05 06:44:48 · answer #7 · answered by grey_worms 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no it is the pains and not being able to walk far at all or bend if i was to fall i know i could not get up.
2007-12-05 06:04:28 · answer #8 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I love my life as it is right now.
2007-12-05 07:04:23 · answer #9 · answered by cooter726 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
totally happy? No.
because someday I can´t manage thinking of my future, which will be, as yours, the cemetery.
2007-12-05 06:11:19 · answer #10 · answered by Pour la Paix. 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋